disparities declined in all four correctional populations...drop in disparity was larger for women...
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Disparities declined in all four correctional populations
Disparities declined in all four correctional populations
Drop in disparity was larger for women than men
Drop in disparity was larger for women than men
Drug offenses largest drop in black-white state prison disparity
Large drop in drug arrest rate disparity drove reduction in imprisonment disparities
Stages of the System: DRUGSIncrease in prison stays offsets some of reduction at front end
Stages of the System: PROPERTYIncrease in prison stays offsets some of reduction at front end
Stages of the System: VIOLENTIncrease in prison stays offsets some of reduction at front end
Adam Gelb
President & CEO
Council on Criminal Justice
@abgelb
counciloncj.org
@counciloncj
Paradigm ShiftsHarvard Kennedy School-National Institute of Justice
Executive Session on Community Corrections
1. Punishing failure to promoting success
2. Mass to focused supervision
3. Time-based to goal-based
4. Deficit-based to strengths-based
5. Delayed/arbitrary to swift/certain
6. Offender-focused to victim-centered
7. Individual focused to family-inclusive
8. Isolated to integrated
9. Fortress to community-based
10. Low-profile to high-profile
11. Caseload-driven funding to
performance-based funding
12. Gut-based to evidence-based
13. Low-tech to high-tech
Adam Gelb
President & CEO
Council on Criminal Justice
@abgelb
counciloncj.org
@counciloncj
Key Findings• Racial and ethnic disparities declined across prison, jail, probation, and
parole populations.
• Black-white imprisonment disparities fell across measured major crime categories.
• Decrease in black-white disparity in imprisonment of women was larger than for men.
• Hispanic-white disparities in all four correctional populations narrowed.
• Decreases in black rates of offending for three categories of violent crime contributed decreases to imprisonment rates that were partially offset by increases in expected time served in prison.
• Fall in drug arrest and prison admission per arrest rates for blacks accounted for the decrease in their drug imprisonment rate.
Research Questions• What are the national-level trends in disparity in probation, parole, jail, and
prison populations?
• Are there crime-specific changes in disparity in imprisonment rates?
• Are there differences in disparity by race and sex?
• How have changes in reported offending rates and criminal justice processing (stages of criminal justice system) affected black and white imprisonment rates?
Trends in Correctional Controlby Race and Sex
William J. Sabol & Thaddeus L. Johnson
Georgia State University
Council on Criminal Justice
December 2019
Trends in Correctional
Controlby Race and Sex
Adam GelbPresident & CEO
Council on Criminal Justice